Kategoriarkiv: SSAG

23 October 2019: ”Gerd Enequist – a multiple pioneer” and ”Writing working lives: feminist geographies and generations”

Department of Social And Economic Geography, Uppsala University, presents two open lectures on:  


23 October 2019

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Gerd Enequist’s installation as the first woman professor at Uppsala University, and the first professor in Human Geography: Gunnel Forsberg, Professor Emeritus in Human Geography with a special focus on urban and regional planning at Stockholm University, will give the lecture:

Gerd Enequist – a multiple pioneer
Gerd Enequist, the first woman professor at Uppsala University, was a pioneer in various ways. With the help of her archive containing a collection of letters, diaries and manuscripts, we can get a glimpse of her crivate life and her scientific contributions in her own voice. This talk will present some aspects of a pioneering woman geographer.

10.15–12.00 in Hörsal 2, Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala.
Join us for fika from 09.30 outside the lecture room.

and in the afternoonwe are happy to present:

Uppsala lecture in human geography 2019:


Linda McDowell, Emerita Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford. Research Fellow, St. John’s College, Oxford. Honorary Professor of Geography, Exeter University

Writing working lives: feminist geographies and generations
The rise of a service-dominated economy has transformed thenature of work and employment in the UK and elsewhere, altering associations between gender and employment opportunities for both women and men. Drawing on personal narratives of working lives, I will explore arguments about the causes and consequences of changing gender divisions of labour, focusing on periods of economic crisis between 1945 and the present. The examples are British but have, I think, many parallels with changes in Sweden.

14.15–16.00 in Hörsal 4, Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala.
We invite you to drinks and buffet at the Department of Social and Economic Geography from 16.30.

Please email sofia.cele@kultgeog.uu.se by Oct 15th, if you would like to eat with us.

Any questions? Email: sofia.cele@kultgeog.uu.se

Welcome!

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Bilder från Vegadagen 2019

Vegasymposiet på Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien i Stockholm.
Professor Emily Martin, New York University, associate professor Jane Anderson, New York University, professor Don Kulick, Uppsala University, and professor Leith Mullings, City University of New York.

Om Vegadagen

Årets geografilärarpris 2019

”Lotta på Mohedaskolan är Sveriges bästa geografilärare” skriver
SVT:s nyheter med anledning av att Lotta Rahm, Mohedaskolan i
Alvesta kommun, får årets geografilärarpris.

Priset delas ut i samarbete mellan Nationalkommittén för geografi
vid Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Geografilärarnas Riksförening och Svenska Sällskapet för Geografi och Antropologi.

Lotta på Mohedaskolan är Sveriges bästa geografilärare
Lärare: Så får du ditt barn intresserad av geografi
Nationalkommittén för geografi
Geografilärarnas Riksförening
Svenska Sällskapet för Geografi och Antropologi

Film screening and Q&A: Menstrual realities in Rural Tanzania – December 14

LUCSUS Lund University and SSAG in cooperation.

Welcome to the film screening of Breaking the Silence. A film by researcher Sara Gabrielsson and Ann Åkerman about Sustainable Menstrual Health Management in Tanzania with a Q&A session with special guest Marjorie Sable, Professor Emeritus in public health at University of Missouri, USA.

The event will include mingle with drinks and snacks.

Marjorie Sable, Professor Emeritus in public health at University of Misssouri, USA is visiting Sweden in conjunction with her husband Professor George P. Smith receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Marjorie Sable is involved with public health work in Rwanda and Tanzania with the NGO Humanity for Children and is interested in research on Menstrual Health Management at LUCSUS.

Sara Gabrielsson is a researcher in Sustainability Science with focus on water and sanitation in Africa, https://www.lucsus.lu.se/sara-gabrielsson

The event is organized by LUCSUS, Lund University and Sara Gabrielssons research is partly generously funded by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG).

Time: 14 December, 15.00 – 16.30
Place: Wrangel, Room 117, Biskopsgatan 5, Lund
Contact persons: Cecilia von Arnold, cecilia.von_arnold@rektor.lu.se and the SSAG Secretary Jonas Åkerman, jonas.akerman@nateko.lu.se.

Everybody interested in sustainability and health is welcome. No registration needed.

Uppsala Lecture in Human Geography 22 oktober 2018

Environmental Deregulation, Spectacular Racism, and White Nationalism in the Trump Era

Professor Laura Pulido, University of Oregon.
Måndag 22 oktober kl. 15.15. Fika kl. 14:45.
Uppsala universitet, Universitetshuset, sal IV.

Abstract: In this talk Professor Pulido shares research which compares the environmental and racist agendas of the first year of the Trump administration. With colleagues she has found that the racist agenda was far more chaotic and included relatively few policy actions in comparison to the environmental deregulatory agenda. The push to deregulate was extremely well-orchestrated on
multiple levels and consisted of far more policy actions versus rhetoric. She argues that Trump’s spectacular racism is at least partly designed to nurture a white-nationalist base while obscuring vast regulatory changes in the environmental arena.

Laura Pulido is Professor of Geography and Ethnic Studies, and Chair of the Dept. of Ethnic Studies, at the University of Oregon. She works at the intersection of geography and critical ethnic studies, especially Chicanx Studies, to explore how racial, class and gender hierarchies shape places and how places inform racial and economic processes. She has published widely in academic and popular venues, and is the author and editor of several books, including Black Brown Yellow & Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (California, 2006), A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (w/ L. Barraclough & W. Cheng, California, 2012).

Uppsala Lecture in Human Geography 22 oktober 2018 (pdf)